Another one finished - this time it's the Eagle Weslake kit by Model Factory Hiro. The car is the 1967 Eagle Weslake as driven to victory in the Belgium GP by driver and team boss Dan Gurney.
In my opinion this is the best looking F1 car ever. It's also close to me, because I spent years driving the Grand Prix Legends racing simulator and the Eagle is the car that started my (virtual) racing career.
The build was not that difficult; you should have a bit experience, though, before trying a MFH kit. It's almost OOB except for a guitar-string instead of the muffler springs and I added the brake lines.
I painted it with a mixture of some Zero Paints blues and Alclad chrome, to get metallic flakes small enough for the scale. Zero 1k clear on top, polished with Tamiya compunds and finished with Hasegawa coating polymer. The exhausts were stained with the Tamiya weathering set (and eye shadow), the metal parts got a small washing.
I had one MFH kit before, the 68 Ferrari, and when comparing the kits I have to mention that the Eagle kit does not include tire stencils, the tires itself are not so good (visible seam), the etched parts were on a foil in the Ferrari kit, so you didn't have to cut them off, and on some parts you see that the parts from rapid prototyping were not cleaned as well as they could have been, which causes some small steps that are hard to clean in some places.
Nevertheless I like the model, and I hope you, too.
WIP:
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul....php?t=1068874
Dan is going for a test drive.
And one pic in the sunlight to show the mtallic effect.
